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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1966
Page
20
County officials tour the nearly completed Jamestown Junior High School on Vickery Chapel Road. They inspect the new arts and crafts room with the first cabinet set in the county system.
Jamestown District officials announce the new Jamestown Junior High School on Vickery Chapel Road will host students starting Monday November 14 pending final state approval. The $1.3 million building features air conditioning multiple classrooms a large library and specialized spaces. Principal John R. Lawrence says enrollment will total about 1135 students with 44 staff including 38 teachers.
In January a fire at a Furlough Street apartment killed three infant children left alone by the burglars. Both defendants faced manslaughter charges and received two year suspended sentences plus court costs. Oliver Steele, 17, was sentenced to four years at the Pope Youth Center Raleigh for breaking entering and larceny.
The text lists candidates including Myrtle Watson and Annie Stroud for Democrats along with Lee Young and James Skinner. Incumbent township constable Archie Hedrick, a Democrat, faces Republican George M. Beck. Zack L. Whitaker seeks reelection to the Guilford County School Board.
A battle of the bands will be held in the YMCA gymnasium on Saturday at 7 30 p m. Bands in the contest include The Morlocks The Sabres The Exclusives The Dawks The Mustangs and The Sonics. Cash prizes await the winner and runner up.
A group of 22 VA Hospital patients and 3 attendants were hosted by VFW Post 9899 Archdale and its Auxiliary. Entertainment included a teen performer Ray Da among attendees were 10th district leaders Jean Polson Frances Wood Grayson Branson and Frank Grant from posts 1159 and 9899.
Dr. Robert J. Havighurst, education professor and author, will speak to students faculty and the public at High Point College next Friday at 3 30 p m in Memorial Auditorium band room. The talk titled Education In Emergent Society cites his roles at the University of Chicago Missouri Kansas City Harvard Ohio State University and the Rockefeller Foundation.
CALLOWHEE Dr Max Williams former High Pointer has been named head of the department of social sciences at Western Carolina College The announcement came from Dean W Newton Turner Williams who previously served as assistant dean at WCC He is a Duke graduate with MA and PhD from UNC and taught history at UNC for over three years before joining WCC in 1958
Evangelist Roseboro and the Tommiettes will perform at St Matthews Holiness Church of God on Taylor Avenue tonight at 8 p.m. The sponsor is Mary Harris.
Dr. Billy Graham will headline Winston-Salem's 200th Anniversary Festival of Thanksgiving at Memorial Coliseum on November 18 at 8 p.m. Archie K. Davis, Wachovia Bank chairman and festival chair, welcomed the invitation noting Graham's fit with prior prominent speakers and the event’s dignified bicentennial programs.
At about 8 56 p m last night the home of Clayton Smith on Estes Street faced a furnace issue from an oil heater. No damage or injuries were reported.
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